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This is a festschrift including nine scientific papers and six abstracts of papers written by Dr. Gerard Rushton or his former graduate students and colleagues to celebrate his retirement from teaching at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. The festschrift begins with Rushton’s own review of his research advances in Behavioral Geography, Economic Geography and Health Geography that coincide with three recurring phases of his academic career during 45 years of teaching at the... Topics: Behavioural Geography, Health Geography, Economic Geography

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Rather than present students with a broad, novice-level introduction to geography, emphasizing places and vocabulary terms, this text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of core themes. This thematic approach, informed by pedagogical research, provides students with an introduction to thinking geographically. Instead of repeating the same several themes each chapter, this text emphasizes depth over breadth by arranging... Topic: Geography

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The massive engineering initiative that resulted in 28 locks and dams between St. Paul and St. Louis created a staircase of water that enhanced commercial barge navigation on the Upper Mississippi in times of low water. This video is being used in CGEE's Mississippi Multimedia Gallery ( http://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee... ) and Waters to the Sea ( http://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee... ) education programs. Topic: Geography

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This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how the Brooklyn Zen Center both reflects/reproduces and challenges the socio-racial-economic tension associated with gentrification and the mindfulness movement. Through an analysis focused at the scale of the... Topics: mindfulness, geography

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It is shown that in the last decades, geography has expanded so much, that it has lost its object of study. It was not clear, what the geographical science does, and, as a consequence, households have an extremely low level of geographical cultures and geographical education. Each geography is extremely isolated, has its own object of study. Especially the big gap still lies between the physical and socio-economic geography. As a result, each geographical science was so moving away from... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Models, Physical Geography, Human Geography, Sciences, Environment,...

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In the present study, we study socio-spatial distribution of overweight and obesity among female colleagues in the faculty of arts and humanities, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, KSA. A cross-sectional study is conducted on female colleges in different majors (Arabic, English, European Languages, French, Psychology, Information Technology, Islamic Studies, Geography, History, and Media). A total of 525 colleges are included, and asked to answer a pre-designed validated questionnaire. Their... Topics: Medical Geography, Obesity, Overweight

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Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences Author: Michael J. Manfredo, Jerry J. Vaske, Andreas Rechkemmer, Esther A. Duk Published by Springer Netherlands ISBN: 978-94-017-8958-5 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2 Table of Contents: A Vision of the Future of Science: Reintegrating of the Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into... Topics: Social sciences, Ecology, Human geography, Social sciences, Social Sciences, general,...

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Glotfelty defines the term ecocriticism as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty xviii). The term “ecocriticism” was coined by William Rueckert in “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism”, in 1978 but its antecedents stretch back much further. Geography has always been involved in the analysis of place and this provides the first core concept. Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain is an autobiographical novel... Topics: Ecocriticism, Gao Xingjian, Geography, Place, Topophilia

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"Sustainability" is one of the seven major concepts in the geography curriculum. It is also one of the three cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian curriculum, together with Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. This paper describes how the concept is explained in the curriculum, explores some of the implications for the teaching of physical geography, discusses the contestability of the concept, and... Topics: ERIC Archive, Sustainability, Geography, Geography Instruction, National Curriculum, Foreign...

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In general, geographical education is closed into two strands. First, in geographical content (knowledge), there are geographical facts on the one hand and on the other hand there is geographical thinking. Second, in geographical cognition there is rote learning in behavioral strategy on the one hand and on the other hand meaningful learning in constructivist strategy. This study presents interactions into the two strands and it describes theoretical sources that comes from geography,... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Thinking...

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This article examines various meanings of the term landscape. It advocates a deep engagement with the concept to enable high school students to carry out a range of thought-provoking geographical inquiries. Each aspect of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority's definition of landscape, shown below, is examined by reference to more one-dimensional ideas of landscape such as "the visible features of the surface of the earth" to the more complex ideas expressed in... Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Geography Instruction, Geographic Regions,...

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The majority of studies on telecollaboration for educational purposes focus on language-related aspects. Therefore, a qualitative explorative research project was set up at the RuhrUniversity Bochum, Germany, dealing with telecollaboration from the perspective of a non-language discipline; it is based on the approach of transferring telecollaboration to content subjects, more precisely to geography education in the context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). In this paper, the... Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Learning, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography...

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It is a decade since the last review of the geographical understandings of pre-service primary teachers. Examining the range of research about novice primary teachers' geographical and environmental knowledge and understanding, it is clear there have been limited follow up studies, and there remain important gaps in the research. Research relevant to this topic was identified through journal, research book and conference proceedings searches, where these were accessible. It is evident that more... Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Geography, Geography Instruction,...

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The purpose of this study was to try to explain the perceptions of undergraduate students regarding geography concept using metaphors. A total of 192 students studying in the Department of Social Studies at Kütahya Dumlupinar University in the academic year 2014-2015 participated in this research. In the study following questions were searched to answer: (a) through which metaphors do undergraduate students explain the perceptions they have in relation to the concept of geography? (b) Under... Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Geography, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students,...

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The fundamental concepts employed by City as Text™ (CAT)--the established experiential learning practice in honors education-and the discipline of geography, specifically the landscape tradition within human geography, share much in common. The overlaps offer CAT practitioners additional intellectual support from a source outside of honors while the differences suggest opportunities for incorporating new material into CAT programs. While CAT and the landscape tradition share the general... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Fundamental Concepts, Experiential Learning, Honors Curriculum, Human...

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This paper investigates the teaching of fieldwork skills over the course of a student's geography education from Years 7 to 10. Relevant research is considered, and findings and discussion are drawn from a case study of the fieldwork program at an independent school in Melbourne. The rationale for this study is that a geography teacher will be better placed to harness the potential of fieldwork if equipped with an understanding of the skills that can be gained through fieldwork, and how... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Case Studies, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Foreign Countries,...

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Statement by the faculty of the Department of Geography and GIScience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in response to Chancellor Phyllis Wise's decision to rescind a tenured faculty appointment to Steven Salaita. Topics: Steven Salaita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geography and GIScience

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A new method for determining the vertical interval of isotopographic surfaces on rugged terrain was developed. The method is based on the concept of determining the differentiated size of the vertical interval using spatial-statistical properties inherent in the modal characteristic, the degree of variability of apical heights and the chosen map scale. It was found that the morphometric characteristics of the terrain are highly informative, can serve as geoindicators, and have applied value;... Topics: ERIC Archive, Measurement Techniques, Topography, Geography, Intervals, Spatial Ability, Maps,...

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World Quest 2017 is coming up. Find out about it with Sol Lausch, Tod Whitman, Sylvia Klett and Sherry Cameron on this episode of WACA presents: What in the World. Topics: Reading, Pennsylvania, Berks Community Television, BCTV, Public Access TV, Community Media, PEG,...

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In the summer of 2012, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) conducted an experiment off the coasts of Oregon and Washington to investigate acoustic clutter caused by aggregations offish. Two surveys and an experiment that were focused on the fish themselves were conducted in and near the NRL experiment area at about the same time These showed that Pacific sardine and Pacific hake were abundant in and around the NRL experiment area and provided information on their characteristics that are... Topics: DTIC Archive, BAYOUACOUSTICS ABITA SPRINGS LA, *FISHES, ACOUSTICS, CLUTTER, DISTRIBUTION,...

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From small countries’ perspectives, the four general defensive postures—conventional military build-ups, WMD acquisition, alliance formation, and neutrality—are not always viable choices, and are often unaffordable. So these countries must seek more effective and less expensive solutions. From more powerful countries’ perspectives, there is something to be changed, too, since the conflicts of the last few decades have indicated that conventionally waged wars against contemporary... Topics: Conditions for irregular warfare, geography, financial considerations, humanfactor, strategy and...

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This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunteered geographic information (VGI) or crowdsourced geographic information (CGI), offer scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple scales and for... Topics: Geography, Collaborative mapping, Crowdsourced geographic information, Geomatics, OpenStreetMap,... Source: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bax/

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This article addresses the problems of tectonic zoning and determination of geodynamical nature of the formation of jointed tectonic structures within the North Caspian oil and gas basin, represented by Caspian Depression of Russian platform of East European Pre-Cambrian Craton and plate ancient Precambrian Platform stabilization and Turan (Scythian-Turan) plate of Cimmerian (Mesozoic) folding. It is stated that the principle of zoning according to time of the final phase of folding in practice... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geology, Physical Geography, Plate Tectonics, Foreign Countries, Seitov,...

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In this work, we give an overview of our participation in the TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion Track. To address the retrieval of attraction places, we propose a fuzzy-based document combination approach for preference learning and context processing. We use the open web in our submission and make use of both criteria users preferences and geographical location criteria. Topics: DTIC Archive, IRIT/UPS TOULOUSE (FRANCE), *INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, FRANCE, GEOGRAPHY, INFORMATION...

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The purpose of this paper is to develop Geography skills for learners in high school. It is based on the demands of the Curriculum 2013 which emphasizes the achievement of competence. Curriculum 2013 is designed to provide the broadest possible learning experience for students in developing the ability to behave, to have the understanding, to have the skill, and to act. REACT (Relating, Experiencing, Applying, Cooperating, Transferring) strategy is able to bring new atmosphere and the learners... Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Geography Instruction, Secondary Education, High School Students,...

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Operating at the interface between ideas and action, graduate education in geography and planning has a responsibility to provide students with theoretical and practical training. This paper describes service-learning as a form of engaged pedagogy, exploring its ability to interrogate notions related to the "professional turn" and its contributions to transformative learning. Using a case study of a graduate-level service-learning course at the University of Toronto, we address the... Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Service Learning, Case Studies, Transformative...

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The nature of field trips in geoscience lends them to the application of social learning theories for three key reasons. First, they provide opportunity for meaningful practical experience and promote effective learning afforded by no other educational vehicle in the subject. Second, they are integral for students creating a strong but changing sense of identity from student, to geoscience student, to practicing professional geoscientist. Third, they help students to develop and build their own... Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Theories, Learning Theories, Socialization, Field Trips, Geography, Geography...

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The aim of this study was to analyze the geography text book for: (1) identify and describe the errors in the organization of geography textbooks, and (2) identify and describe the content of the textbook standard errors of geography. The text book is currently being used by teachers of Senior High School in East Java. To analyze the contents of the textbook errors using indicators blend of organizing textbook of Beck and McKeown and content standard textbooks of National Education Standards... Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Textbook Preparation, Secondary...

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The Australian Geography Teachers Association (AGTA) represents the views of Australian geography teachers on educational matters. AGTA also seeks to improve the capacity of geography teachers to respond to a changing teaching and learning landscape. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is an independent authority operating in a national education context. It was established as a result of political decision-making and charged with developing a world-class... Topics: ERIC Archive, Role, Professional Associations, Geography, Teacher Attitudes, Geography Instruction,...

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Today, big countries and other countries inside their axes have entered power wars in regions where underground and aboveground sources are important. One of the characteristics of countries where these power wars take place is them not being able to understand the current world politics and elements of political geography. These countries cannot develop modern strategies for current political needs. Like these countries, Turkey has not yet understood the importance of political geography and... Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Studies, Undergraduate Study, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Political...

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When U.S . forces departed Iraq on 15 December 2011 to return to the U.S., they did so much as General George B. McClellan had left the Peninsula to return to Washington, D.C. on 20 August 1862. The U.S. had lost a great deal of blood and treasure with little to show for its expenditure. This thesis addresses several aspects of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and the 2003 Iraq invasion as well as the contemporary doctrine concerning risk. There were many contributing factors to the Anny of the... Topics: DTIC Archive, NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT ADVANCED WARFIGHTING SCHOOL, *MILITARY...

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This page shares a PDF scan of Andrew Gryf Paterson's Bachelor thesis that was written for Glasgow School of Art, and accredited by Glasgow University towards a submission of BA(Hons) degree. Two copies were physically printed for evaluation. One resided in Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Library which held all graduate's thesis, and may have burned in the fire of 2014. The only other copy was in my possession, and the digital version copy on a floppy disc is inaccessible and lost. Hence the... Topics: European history, Nationalism, Political Science, Political Geography, Social Identity Theory,...

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BronxNet is the independent not-for-profit 501c3 serving the people of the Bronx through media production training and access to technology and cable television channels. BronxNet produces award winning programming by, for, and about the Bronx, while training the public and students to produce programs to share with their neighbors. BronxNet has provided training and media access to thousands of Bronxites. The BronxNet Training Program for Future Media Professionals has provided media access... Topics: bronx, public, access, bronxmedia, media, tv, television, packages, reporting, events, programs,...

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This paper considers the photographic act as an affective and affirmative encounter--a reflexive, embodied, and relational community engagement that may produce a rupture in our habitual modes of thinking. The author uses the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the nomadic weapon to consider how the camera may become an affective trigger for self-reflexivity, catalyzing the potential of nomadic thinking in a participatory frame. By transposing uses of photography as visual research method across... Topics: ERIC Archive, Photography, Art Activities, Participation, Reflection, Research Methodology, Human...